10:30 PM,
Dec. 28, 2012

Hector Diaz, one of the city?s culinary stars, was charged this week with misdemeanor assault on a female.

Written by

Jon Ostendorff
and Romando Dixson

City police arrested a well-known downtown restaurant owner and charged him with hitting a city parking services worker in the head.

Hector Diaz, one of the city's culinary stars, was charged Thursday with misdemeanor assault on a female.

The parking worker was behind a blue Honda crossover on Wall Street, parked in a 30-minute loading zone, tagging it into the system when it began moving toward her about 11 a.m. Thursday, according to a police report. She was not issuing a citation, she later told police. ...